Word: dunant
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...Nobel, who specified that the recipient be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The first winners were Switzerland's Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross and originator of the Gene va Convention, and France's Frederic Passy, a noted pacifist who convened the first International Peace Congress in Paris in 1889. The first female recipient (in 1905) was Austrian Baroness Bertha von Suttner, a longtime confidante of Nobel...